Saturday, February 19, 2011

I'm currently unable to add any new friends and that turned out to be a pretty good thing. Beth and I both received friend requests from a "Michelle Kay". We noticed that she didn't have any mutual friends, but Beth went ahead and accepted the friend request after noting that she listed herself as a fan of The Atheist Experience.

This evening, Beth got a message from this person which confirmed our suspicions:

*Don't feed the trolls*this person probably sends messages to pastors telling them how dumb they are for believing in fairy tales.What'd be worth getting a hold of is a religios figure (pastor, priest, apologist) telling you to enjoy sucking dick in hell. hahahaah

@ChristOnlce People are jumping to the conclusion that the picture is a fake because it looks very much like a picture from porn. Also a girl does not look like that and have only 56 friends. This is quite a regular thing to do on fb and its usually to get email addresses.

I don't like the assumptions people made about this person ie. "She's young and good looking therefor, she can't be racist".

But I did search for the picture in TinEye and the picture turned up here http://cavemancircus.com/2010/10/18/the-daily-dump-79/

So it may be likely this is a fake account.

@Canaling15 I disagree it looks like a "picture from porn". If that's what porn pictures look like then every girl from my high school was in porn. No, I think it looks like your standard "myspace" shot people are so fond of.

Poe's Law: It is impossible to create a parody of religious fundamentalism so extreme that no one will mistake it for the real thing.

Poe - tard (n.) A person who...1) confuses the meaning of "Poe" with "troll."2) is ignorant of the meaning of Poe's Law, and instead thinks it means the following: "Everybody is totally nice, everywhere. Stupid, mean-spirited people do not exist. They are a myth, like the Loch Ness Monster or the Tooth Fairy, or even God. Therefore, in any instance in which you see a person being stupid, mean and nasty on the internet, it is not real. It is someone simply faking it. This is true in 100% of instances, because in reality, nobody is mean, nobody feels hate (let alone would have the bad manners to express it even if it were possible for them to feel it), and no one actually believes anything dumb of any kind. Therefore, the proper reaction to all instances of bad behavior on the internet is to proclaim, It's just a Poe! The badness will then magically go away. Remember, it is impossible for badness to exist in any form in objective reality, ever."

Don't be a Poetard.

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If we are going to strive to be an example of how to behave and how to treat people in the modern world, we might considering abandoning the nasty practice of using the invented and derogatory suffix "-tard". There are people in this world who ACTUALLY ARE RETARDED, and they might not appreciate their conditions being used as slander.

It is unfair for you to think that all religious people would be nasty like that. Please stop misrepresenting religion. I have nothing against Atheism. I think the concept of doing good for the sake of doing good and without expecting a reward by God is a beautiful thing. There are many good things about Atheism/Humanism. But I don't like the way Atheists look down on Religious or Spiritual people. We are not evil haters. I only have two believes/ hope, I hope and believe that somehow there is a loving God and I hope and believe that there is Life After Death and all of us will be united with our loved ones again.What's wrong with having those believes? Why does it make me dangerous or not suitable for the 21st century. Please stop misrepresenting religion. Thank you.

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